ELL Catalog

The Dene Grigar Collection

52Psycho

52 Card Cinema: 52 Card Psycho

Authored by Geoffrey Alan Rhodes

52 Card Cinema is an installation-based investigation into cinematic structures and interactive cinema viewership. The concept is simple: 52 cards, each printed with a unique identifier, are replaced in the subject's view by the individual shots that make up a movie scene. The cards can be stacked, dealt, arranged in their original order or re-composed in different configurations, creating spreads of time. The technology used ...

88-constellations

88 Constellations for Wittgenstein

Authored by David Clark

88 Constellations for Wittgenstein (to be played with the Left Hand) is an interactive, non-linear net.art piece that explores the life and philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein through a series of animated vignettes created in Flash.

dream-demons

A Dream with Demons

Authored by Edward Falco

In "A Dream with Demons," Edward Falco invents a world where bruised adults attempt, over and over, to rewrite the violent scripts of their childhood.

life-set

A Life Set For Two

Authored by Robert Kendall

Welcome to Café Passé. In this bizarre restaurant, acclaimed poet Robert Kendall sets a table where reminders of lost love linger everywhere.

slow-year

A Slow Year

Authored by Ian Bogost

A Slow Year is a collection of four games, one for each season, about the experience of observing things. These games are neither action nor strategy: each of them requires a different kind of sedate observation and methodical input.

abc-la

ABC L.A.

Authored by Guy Bennett,Béatrice Mousli

ABC L.A. is an audio-textual portrait of the city of Los Angeles written in the form of an alphabet primer. The texts are read by the authors over a collage of ambient recordings made throughout the city by Martin Krieger.

so-many-things

about so many things

Authored by Nanette Wylde

"about so many things" randomly displays the activities of "He" and "She" without bias to gender. That is, the activities are drawn from the same pool of possibilities.

afternoon-story

afternoon, a story

Authored by Michael Joyce

A classic of electronic fiction, afternoon is required reading. Complex and richly imagined, this is the story of Peter, a technical writer who (in one reading) begins his afternoon with a terrible suspicion that the wrecked car he saw hours earlier might have belonged to his former wife.

alphaweb

Alphaweb

Authored by Diana Slattery

Alphaweb is a hypertext spinning on a central axis: an alphabet of poems. It is a synchronicity generator, a fractal enfoldment, a post-literate act of reconstructionism. -- from "Alphaweb"

ambient

Ambient Video Series: mediartZ Exhibit

Authored by Jim Bizzocchi

Ambient Video is video intended to play on the walls in the backgrounds of our lives. In the spirit of Brian Eno's "ambient music", Ambient Video must be as Eno says: "as easy to ignore as it is to notice." For my own work, I expand Eno's dictum to three interrelated criteria that I want my own ambient video art to meet. First, it must not require your attention at any time. Second, whenever you do look at it it must rew...

ambulance

Ambulance

Authored by Monica Moran

"Ambulance" is about some Gen-Xers who run into a string of spectacularly bad luck involving a car accident and a serial killer disguised as an ambulance driver.

among-convo

Among the Conversations

Authored by Kelati Andemichael

elmcip

Anthology of European Electronic Literature 2012

Authored by Maria Engberb, Talan Memmott, David Prater, Eds.

The ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature is an output from the ELMCIP researchers based at Blekinge Tekniska Högskola (Blekinge Institute of Technology) in Sweden. The anthology is intended to provide educators, students and the general public with a free curricular resource of electronic literary works produced in Europe.

arrested

Arrested

Authored by Nanette Wylde

Although created ten years ago "Arrested" continues to comment meaningfully on the phenomena of social classification and judgment (seemingly) inherent in human society. What makes the project particularly interesting and poignant is that it encourages reflection on the systems of labeling and judgment that are both internal and external.

audio-pieces

Avatar Woman

Authored by Azure Carter,Alan Sondheim

balladsandsoot

Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot

Authored by Stephanie Strickland

distant-things

Barely Holding Distant Things Apart...

Authored by Bill Mohr

Bill Mohr reads his epic avant guarde poem "Barely holding distant things apart..." to the music of Mineko Grimmer's primal ice-stone melting sculpture at Beyond Baroque in Venice, California.

because-you-asked

Because You Asked

Authored by Alan Bigelow

between-page

Between Page and Screen

Authored by Amaranth Borsuk,Brad Bouse

Between Page and Screen explores the place of books as objects in an era of increasingly screen-based reading. The pages of this artist's book contain no text-only abstract geometric patterns and a web address leading to this site, where the book may be read using any browser and a webcam.

bluelight

Blue Light Project

Authored by Kirsten Petersen

"Blue Light" is a mobile, location-based narrative written for the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park.

bodies

Bodies

Authored by Alan Sondheim

Experimental work by Alan Sondheim

califia

Califia

Authored by M.D. Coverley

Spanning five generations of swashbuckling Californians, Califia is the story of Augusta Summerland's epic search for a lost cache of gold.

califiabeta1

Califia (Beta 1.0)

Authored by M.D. Coverley

Spanning five generations of swashbuckling Californians, Califia is the story of Augusta Summerland's epic search for a lost cache of gold.

califia

Califia (Beta 2.2)

Authored by M.D. Coverley

Spanning five generations of swashbuckling Californians, Califia is the story of Augusta Summerland's epic search for a lost cache of gold.

calling-america

Calling America

Authored by M. Cooley

Calling America is an internet-based oral histories project that explores the possibilities of popular communications technologies in the practice of participatory journalism, documentary and the preservation of people's histories.

cartune-2008

Cartune Xprez 2008

Authored by Various Artists

Cartune Xprez 2008 is a collection of contemporary animated videos...From around the world, this compilation showcases a generation of artists' mind melting cartoons bound by a strong Do-It-Yourself sensibility.

cartune-2010

Cartune Xprez 2010

Authored by Various Artists

CARTUNE XPREZ's 3rd DVD compilation comes crawling out of a dark cavern into this new decade. It collects 15 new animations: 8 shorts and 7 loops.

centuryc

Century Cross

Authored by Deena Larsen

"This is what happens when you stay overnight in the Federal Center to catch up on your work. You hear odd noises. Pictures fall off the wall. Then you spy a coyote who is smart enough to know how the world began, but foolish enough to destroy it (maybe) if you don't pay more attention to him." -Back of box

cerca-de-mi

Cerca de Mi

Authored by Lemeh42

ceremony

Ceremony of Innocence

Authored by Gerrie Villon,Alex Mayhew,Alex Gifford

Immerse yourself in a mysterious interactive love story, told through the intense correspondence between Griffin, a young artist from London and Sabine, his enigmatic South Sea Island muse.

charu

Charu's Secret Garden

Authored by Susan Lewak

volta

Cinema Volta: Weird Science & Childhood Memory

Authored by James Petrillo

Combining a dream like atmosphere and commentaries on such seminal scientific and literary players as Edison, Tesla, Dante and Mary Shelly, Cinema Volta establishes itself as a representation of the modern memoir in the information age.

close-home

Close to Home

Authored by Ian Hakon Erichsen

collection

Collection

Authored by Greg Philbrook

"Collection" is a short, text driven video about the self-imposed loneliness of a man living behind his video camera. Though a technically simple piece made entirely in LiveType and Final Cut, this brief narrative exposes a raw, unwavering feeling of regret and helplessness.

circle-com

Completing the Circle

Authored by Michael van Mantgem

"Would you like to experience a scotomic episode? Click here. A man, his wife, his lover, and his fantasy: four voices converge, overlap, and ultimately disintegrate." -Back of box

contact

Contact

Authored by Steve Gibson,Randy Adams,Jim Andrews

"Contact" is a collaborative event with live electronic music and real-time interactive imaging.

counterpoint

Counterpoint

Authored by Kevin McLellan

creative-works

Creative Works

Authored by Trace Reddell

A collection of works from Trace Reddell, including "It's a Psych-Out!," "Society of the Spectacle," "Beginning of the Voyage," and "Replicas," "Stella by Starlight," "FAP," and documentation footage of "microMacroCosm."

crossed-lines

Crossed Lines

Authored by Sarah Atkinson

Crossed Lines is a multiform (or multiplot) film telling the stories of nine characters in a way that the viewer can constantly explore and switch between all nine forms, and can simultaneously witness all sides of the characters' exchanges which are taking place between the nine remote locations.

cultures

Cultures in Webs

Authored by Roderick Coover

Cultures In Webs is an interactive CD-ROM which features hypermedia approaches to cross-cultural filmmaking, photography and new media. The documentary studies interweave text, photos, video clips and audio to offer a discussion about cross-cultural film, photography and the practices of visual anthropology.

cyborg

Cyborg: Engineering the Body Electric

Authored by Diane Greco

Part human and part machine, the cyborg is a familiar figure in cyberpunk science fiction. But this figure looms ever larger -- as metaphor and as reality -- in all our lives. Today, cyborgs are real; in cyberspace, we are all cyborgs.

audio-pieces

Dene's Music Comps (Ghost's Sonata)

Authored by Dene Grigar

A compilation of nine ambient audio pieces: "Aftermath," "Aftermath 2," "Aftermath 3," "Bomb," "Ghost," "Ghost 2," "Ghost 3," "Music Experiment," and "Wondering."

developing

Developing: The Idea of Home

Authored by Nancy Buchanan

A poetic artwork exploring themes related to "home" but also expanding outward from the private into matters related to real estate and land development, economics and the politics of land use. Extensive bibliography included, as well as video and audio clips.

diffractions

Diffractions Through

Authored by Jim Rosenberg

This work is the successor to Intergrams, and was originally published by Eastgate Systems. It is available as a download here. Simultaneities in this work include polylinear "word nets" and subdiagrams.

directions

Directions

Authored by Robert Swigart

Rob Swigart calls Directions "a quasi-sentimental pseudo-scientific hyperpoem." Centered on the periodic table of the elements, Directions combines poetic fragments, visual images, prose narrative, and sound to create a deep, dazzling, and often startling work.

directions

Directions

Authored by Rob Swigwart

Centered on the periodic table of the elements, Directions combines poetic fragments, visual images, prose narrative, and sound to create a deep, dazzling, and often startling work. -Back of box

disconnection

disConnection

Authored by M. Cooley

(Dis)Location, (Dis)Connection, (Dis)Embodiment is a collective experiment in database video and random access narrative.

downtime

Down Time

Authored by Rob Swigart

"Down Time consists of twenty-one stories of the computer age, connected by shared characters, events and objects. A police officer, a terminal patient, a computer technician, and a high-school guidance counselor are just a few of the characters we follow as they try (and fail) to understand themselves, their lovers, and the strangers they meet." -Eastgate Site

egypt

Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day

Authored by M.D. Coverley

Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day - is a CD-ROM - based, extended narrative in hypermedia. Because of the complexity, it was conceived and written, from the beginning, with a variety of software programs.

elo-2008

ELO 2008

Authored by Alan Bigelow

Compilation of works by Alan Bigelow: When I was President, The Lord's Prayer, Because you Asked, and My Novel.

entreville

Entre Ville

Authored by J.R. Carpenter

ENTRE VILLE is a web art poetry project presented in the vernacular of my neighbourhood, where cooking smells, noisy neighbours and laundry lines criss-cross the alleyway one sentence at a time.

ephemere

Ephémère

Authored by Char Davies

Ephémère is iconography evolved through Davies' long-standing practice as a painter, and, as in Osmose, is grounded in 'nature' as metaphor: archetypal elements of root, rock, and stream etc. recur throughout.

epiglobis

Epiglobis

Authored by Alexander Mouton

Epiglobis is an interactive video that explores consumption, desire, & issues pertaining to globalization. The piece combines non-linear imagery with sounds called from a databank, generating continuously new juxtapositions.

fallowfield

Fallow Field: A Story in Two Parts

Authored by Dene Grigar

"Fallow Field: A Story in Two Parts" is a work of hypertext-Flash fiction that incorporates sound, animation, and words to tell the story about the end of a marriage.

figurski

Figurski at Findhorn on Acid

Authored by Richard Holeton

Frank "Many-Pens" Figurski, paroled after serving six years for killing Professor Quentin Kingsley, is on a mission. Having discovered what is apparently a seventeenth-century mechanical pig washed up on the beach at Findhorn Park, Frank embarks on a quest to determine the pig's authenticity.

audio-pieces

Filaments

Authored by Anne-Francoise Jacquis

first-screening

First Screening

Authored by bpNichol

The HyperCard version of First Screening was a careful re-creation and recoding of the original, and it extended the life of First Screening a few more years. Still, HyperCard eventually died, leaving the poems unavailable to all but the few who owned a functioning old Mac or an even older Apple IIe and a readable diskette. -Jim Andrews

forward-anywhere

Forward Anywhere

Authored by Judy Malloy,Cathy Marshall

"Forward Anywhere" explores the outrageous and mundane realities that reach across two lives to make these narrators who they are. This funny, touching work is the first published collaboration by these major figures in hypertext writing and research.

dionysian

Fragments of the Dionysian Body

Authored by Eric Steinhart

"Nietzsche's aphorisms, metaphors and parables often leave his thought less than clear. Steinhart's clever hypertext and obvious enthusiasm present this great thinker's work with clarity and energy." -Back of box

free-radicals

Free Radicals

Authored by Marcus Bastos

"The work was part of the cultural program of a party celebrating freedom that took place in April at the famous Sao Paulo club, Vegas. First scholar Lucia Santaella discussed the concept of freedom and then local VJs Spetto, Lucas Bambozzi, duVa, and Helga Stein performed live remixes of Bastus's piece, creating a new version of it that now stands side-by-side with the original. On view until July 15, "Free Radicals" brings t...

genetis

Genetis: A Rhizography

Authored by Richard Smyth

In the style of what Gregory Ulmer calls the mystory, Richard Smyth uses the genre-defying capabilities of hypertext to present a case for the power of writing in desperate circumstances. After the narrator's mental meltdown on his honeymoon, he learns that only writing has the power to salvage his sanity and his life.

glasgow

Glasgow Rhymes

Authored by Gemma Mannion

"The piece is very personal to me as I was brought up in Glasgow, and these rhymes were as well known to me as was more famous nursery rhymes like Humpty Dumpty. All lines of the nursery rhymes are split up and spread around the page. The point is to try and find all the parts of the nursery rhyme and assemble them in the middle in order."

gloriousninth

Glorious Ninth

Authored by Mancmash

grenze

Grenze

Authored by Patrick Fontana,Emeric Aelters,Pierre-Yves Fave

GRENZE consists of sequences called ARTIFICIAL UNITS OF DEVELOPMENT (AUD) that correspond to drawn notes made during my readings of Capital. For each AUD there is a corresponding fragment of the text by Karl Marx. One of the meanings of the german word "grenze" is the limit as a border separating two areas, which by definition can be crossed. GRENZE is a series of visual readings based on "Capital" by Karl Marx (part 1). GR...

heritagemyth

Heritage Mythologies

Authored by Jackson 2Bears

Heritage Mythologies is a Live Cinema/Scratch Video performance artwork that utilizes gesture controlled vinyl-tracking technology in conjunction with specialized software in order to edit, manipulate and "scratch" audio/video media in real-time.

i-have-said

I Have Said Nothing

Authored by J. Yellowlees Douglas

Poised between prose and poetry, this acclaimed hypertext draws the reader into artfully recombined scenes of terror and seduction.

sisterspit

I Spit on Your Country: Words from the '97 Roadshow

Authored by Sister Spit

Sister Spit was a weekly all-girl open-mic event that lasted for two years in San Francisco, bringing hundreds of girls out of their journals and onto the stage. In 1997, it morphed into a gargantuan coast-to-coast spoken word tour, tugging 12 girls in 2 vans from San Francisco to Provincetown and back. Here are some of the resulting rantings and ravings.

icebound

Ice-Bound Compendium : The first Two Chapters

Authored by Jacob Garbe,Aaron Reed

This is a partial mock-up, containing around 30 of the 80 pages that will be in the final volume.

monkmac

If Monks had Macs...

Authored by Brian Thomas

As the cloister fountain gently splashes, browse the four collections - "Art and Ideas," "The American Renaissance," "The Monks' Library," and the "JFK Archives" - in the monastery library's revolving bookcase. -Back of box

immemory

Immemory

Authored by Chris Marker

"In Immemory, Chris Marker has used the format of the CD-Rom to create a multi-layered, multimedia memoir. The reader investigates "zones" of travel, war, cinema, and poetry, navigating through photographs, film clips, music, and text, as if physically exploring Marker's memory itself." -Back of cover

small-large

In Small & Large Pieces

Authored by Kathryn Cramer

In Small and Large Pieces is a postmodern Through the Looking Glass. Anna's parents have the bad habit of falling to pieces in any crisis. Anna thinks that's nothing she can't fix, but then the Grand Unified Parent is a little much to deal with...

incomplete

Incomplete Works

Authored by Philippe Bootz

intergrams

Intergrams

Authored by Jim Rosenberg

Intergrams introduces us to a new species in the word forest, an infinity of possibilities, an arena with structure that is still open, that behaves, that invites. Intergrams is the exact analog of the idea that the domain of music is anything which may be heard, or that the domain of the visual arts is anything which may be seen.

interpoesia

Interpoesia

Authored by Philadelpho Minezes

penelope

its name was Penelope

Authored by Judy Malloy

"its name was Penelope" is a collection of memories in which a woman photographer recollects the details of her life. Published by Eastgate, and considered one of the classic works of electronic literature, "its name was Penelope" invites the reader to explore an artist's life.

jacks

Jacks in Slow Motion

Authored by Kiko Goifman

"Jacks in Slow Motion" is a work based on the relationships between anthropology and art. The book deals with the time lived inside prisons. The CD-ROM (which comes with the book) proposes unusual ways of navigating through artistic experiences about the prison. Our collection is missing the book.

jargon

Jargon Reducer

Authored by Nanette Wylde

"Jargon Reducer" is a handy English Language tool which helps you to understand what is really being communicated.

killing-lena

Killing Lena

Authored by Jamie Allen

"Killing Lena" is Lena Soderberg's most famous photo, repeatedly exposed to the image compression techniques she unwittingly helped to develop.

king-space

King of Space

Authored by Sarah Smith

A dark science-fictional ritual of fertility and regeneration, King of Space takes place in an abandoned starship, circling the edges of a plague-ridden and collapsing solar system, where an escaped terrorist meets the last star-captain and his ship's Priestess.

kodachrome

Kodachrome Blue Syntax

Authored by Kenneth Sherwood

One's memory resonates in sympathy with personal media, the diary, home movie, photograph album. This digital composition explores how a sense of one's past -- perhaps the aura of childhood -- is imagined and represented, and how those representations re-inflect the past.

leonunez

Leo Nuñez Works Archive

Authored by Leo Nuñez

Flash website of Leo Nuñez's works archived on a CD.

life-after

Life After Wartime

Authored by Ross Gibson

In 1998 Ross Gibson and Kate Richards began collaborating on a suite of works, known collectively as Life After Wartime. In a range of different media, the suite of works responds to an archive of crime scene photographs from Sydney, 1945-60.

life-taste

Life Tastes Good

Authored by Will Bauer

A portrait of Coke as an A.I.

losssets

Loss Sets

Authored by Namir Ahmed,Tiffany Cheung,Jordan Scott,Aaron Tucker

A set of four 3D poetry cubes, accompanying documentation, and a hand-written notes from the author. "Loss Sets translates poems co-written by Jordan Scott and Aaron Tucker into sculptures printed by 3D printers. If language is the material from which poetry is built, what becomes of poetry when it sheds language for pure form? What, if anything, is reconciled? What is reimagined? What is lost? Within this nexus of translation...

ludwig

Ludwig Van Beethoven - Symphony No 9

Authored by Robert Winter

"The first in the CD Companion series, this inspired and illuminating guided tour of Beethoven's last, great work is the program that established a whole new genre for CD-ROM technology." -Back of cover

lust

Lust

Authored by Mary-Kim Arnold

Mary-Kim Arnold's "Lust" is a short fiction that experiments with the possibilities of hypertextual combinations of a small number of nodes -- it has 38 nodes and 141 links. The reader encounters violent scenes, a sequence of lovers, the creation and loss of family, blood, and screaming. These sequences -- and their meanings -- differ with the reader's initial choices.

mahasu

Mahasukha Halo

Authored by Richard Gess

"Mahasukha - the Nepalese Buddhist concept of transcendence through erotic experience." -Back of box

mancmash

Mancmash

Authored by Unknown Author

mapping

Mapping

Authored by Slvia Tomayko Peters

Mapping (2011) is an interactive web-based text which addresses location, geographically, psychologically, and corporeally. By mousing through the text and exploring various options, users reveal layers, edit structure, and help create a unique piece with each iteration. Mapping was created using HTML and JavaScript.

marble-springs

Marble Springs

Authored by Deena Larsen

Marble Springs, a complex and lyrical new work in the tradition of Spoon River Anthology and Winesburg, Ohio, explores the lives of the women who built the American West. Marble Springs invites the reader to explore a collection of poems discovered in the ruins of a church in an abandoned ghost town.

babel-library

Marginalia in the Library of Babel

Authored by Mark C. Marino

Author's Note: This page offers a reproduction of an excerpt from the longer and ongoing work Marginalia in the Library of Babel. That longer narrative presents annotations via the social bookmarking and annotation plugin Diigo, using live web pages. For the sake of maintaining stability for publication, this version uses saved versions of those pages and a custom system for annotations developed by Keith Gustafson. All copyri...

mothering

Mothering

Authored by Judith Kerman

"The continual sound -- part murmur, part jackhammer -- of a mother's voice binds past, present, and possible futures. The unnamed narrator struggles with death, birth, and with the lost loves -- Alwin, J. R., and the Deep Sea Diver -- who populate her psychic landscape. Sensitive, whimsical, and moving." -Back of box

audio-pieces

Mouth(s)' lecture(s) video-performance

Authored by Patrick Fontana,Emeric Aelters,Pierre-Yves Fave

From the website: "The final form of Mouth(s)' lecture(s) is a video performance inspired by Rumanian poet Ghérasim Luca's poetry. It is based on the development and spatial setup of two visual objects : the DIOPTRIC STUDIO and the INKS TABLE, that will produce visual forms. This performance first translates visually a choice of poems, then escapes from the writing to focus on images. Patrick Fontana thus exploits the po...

humanity

My Humanity

Authored by Belinda Haikes

captain-captain

My Name Is Captain, Captain

Authored by Judd Morrissey,Lori Talley

"My Name Is Captain, Captain" blew us away with its combination of stunning design and poetry of complexity and dimension. At a time when even the best hypertext, on or off the Web, often seems empty and superficial, Morrissey and Talley have used hypertext and motion graphics to create a subtle work of powerful emotional force.

myst

Myst

Authored by Cyan

Alone on a mysterious island, you set out to explore its grandeur and mystery. Here, a chilling tale of intrigue and injustice, defying all boundaries of space and time, is being told. Summon your wits and imagination about you.

narrative-units

Narrative Units

Authored by Ethan Miller

The Narrative Units project addresses a number of questions by interconnecting several systems of interest. Information Theory, which strictly concerns itself with the encoding and transmission of data, is displaced into the context of a literary narrative. This framing serves to evoke question surrounding the dispersion of Information Theory and other paradigms of first-wave cybernetics into contemporary culture.

nature-leash

Nature On A Leash

Authored by Gail Scott White

"Nature On A Leash" is an idiosyncratic portrait of nature as an extension of the built environment. In this short film, suburbanites collect, redesign, and objectify the "natural world" for its entertainment, recreational and decorative use.

noisefold

NoiseFold 1.0

Authored by David Stout,Cory Metcalf

The NoiseFold v1.0 world premiere took place in the spring of 2006 at the Festival Internationale d'Art Video, Casablanca, Morocco. NoiseFold v1.0 was subsequently presented at venues worldwide including: STEIM (Amsterdam, Netherlands), HyperAction Festival (Santa Fe, NM), Interactive Futures (Victoria, BC), Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival [BEAF] (Bellingham, WA), Upgrade Series at 199 Media Arts (Seattle, WA), UNESCO Cre...

absolute-zero

Notes Toward Absolute Zero

Authored by Tim McLaughlin

Tim McLaughlin's stunning Notes Toward Absolute Zero interweaves historical documents of the ill-fated Franklin expedition with the personal reminiscences of a woman in search of her hypnotist uncle and of the the man who, in turn, searches for her.

nybble

Nybble-Engine Demo DVD

Authored by various authors

Nybble-engineering refers to a method that starts at the programming level of real-time tools. The AV products generated from these, so-called nybble-engine-movies (NEMs), are structurally interactive real-time network films.

of-a-place

Of A Place

Authored by Ines Amado

day-night

of day, of night

Authored by Megan Heyward

In Megan Heyward's new media narrative, of day, of night, a woman has lost the ability to dream. Setting herself a series of creative tasks, she attempts to spark her unconscious into dreaming again.

small-step

One Small Step

Authored by M. Cooley

OneSmallStep: a MySpace LuvStory is an unfolding automated jam - a conscious sampling and randomized regurgitation of MySpace.com media archeology...

osmose

Osmose

Authored by Char Davies

Osmose (1995) is an immersive interactive virtual-reality environment installation with 3D computer graphics and interactive 3D sound, a head-mounted display and real-time motion tracking based on breathing and balance.

patchwork

Patchwork Girl

Authored by Shelly Jackson

What if Mary Shelley's Frankenstein were true? What if Mary Shelley herself made the monster -- not the fictional Dr. Frankenstein? And what if the monster was a woman, and fell in love with Mary Shelley, and travelled to America? This is their story.

pieces

Pieces

Authored by Robert Kendall

Pieces is a puzzle story. To read the work, you assemble the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, each piece yielding a portion of narrative. Under your hands, several lives take shape in earnest if sometimes wobbly and unprepossessing assemblages.

poesia

Poesia Paulista 12 canções

Authored by Dante Pignatari

hagit-portfolio

Portfolio for Media Art Show

Authored by Hagit Cohen

Compilation of eleven photos for the Media Art Show in October, 2007.

erik-portfolio

Portfolio Reel

Authored by Erik Fauske

gatheringcloud

Print Materials for "The Gathering Cloud"

Authored by J.R. Carpenter

psychodrama

Psycho Drama

Authored by Melissa Grey

A performance including live chamber ensemble, electroacoustic soundscape and projected video, Psychodrama is a multiple rescoring of the shower sequence in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.

petals

Pulling Petals

Authored by Mindy Lam

quam

Quam Artem Exerceas?

Authored by Giuliano Franco

"Quam Artem Exerceas?" "What do you do for a living?" This was the question of Bernardino Ramazzini, the father of occupational medicine. -Back of box

quibbling

Quibbling

Authored by Carolyn Guyer

"...Quibbling recreates the experience of writing, of assembling a story from fragments of the experience, connecting this empowering process of assembly with the process by which we assemble ourselves and our lives." -Eastgate Product Page

ramcam

Ramcam Explosion

Authored by Belinda Haikes

random-haiku

Random Haiku for the Millennial Shift

Authored by Nanette Wylde

Random Haiku for the Millennial Shift employs randomized text to create haiku that echo these times. A new poem is created every 20 seconds out of 3.5 million possible haiku.

redplanet

Red Planet

Authored by Robert Markley,Harrison Higgs,Michelle Kendrick,Helen Burgess

"Red Planet, an educational DVD-ROM for home, library, or school use, employs the latest multimedia technology to offer in-depth, cross-disciplinary analysis of Mars as both an object of scientific study and a cultural artifact." -Front of box

reel-history

Reel History

Authored by Stephen Farina

This multi-media graphic memoir is a history of jazz, a personal story, and a reflection on the allure and the illusions of discovering something seemingly authentic in a lost cache of decades old audio recordings.

samplers

Samplers: Nine Vicious Little Hypertexts

Authored by Deena Larsen

Nine richly imagined works make up this sampler quilt of hypertext. Stories of spirits returned to haunt the living, of memories that stubbornly refuse to fade, and of children far wiser than their parents.

bodies

Saucer

Authored by Alan Sondheim

Experimental work by Alan Sondheim

scad-animation

SCAD animation 2008

Authored by Various Authors

A showcase of animated shorts from the Savannah College of Art and Design

screen

Screen

Authored by Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Wardrip-Fruin's interactive media art piece entitled "Screen" is an example of digital installation art. To view and interact with the piece, a user first enters a room, called the "Cave," which is a virtual reality display area with four walls surrounding the participant. White memory texts appear on the background of black walls. Through bodily interaction, such as using one's hand, a user can move and bounce the text around...

sea-island

Sea Island

Authored by Edward Falco

"Ten hypertext poems explore themes of memory, desire, solitude, loss, and age, in the tradition of Rimbaud, Baudelaire, and Gertrude Stein." -Back of box

secondfront

Second Front's 2nd DVD

Authored by Second Front

Second Front is the pioneering performance art group in the online avatar-based VR world, Second Life. Second Front creates theatres of the absurd that challenge notions of virtual embodiment, online performance, and the formation of virtual narrative.

secret-ring

Secret Decoder Ring

Authored by Atrodime Transit Authority

audio-pieces

Shilihe

Authored by Catherine Clover

Shilihe is the market where the buying and selling of singing and fighting crickets takes place in Beijing [known as cricket culture in English]. While some local people think this is a dying custom and believe only 'old Beijingers' are interested, others believe the custom is being sustained with new interest from younger people being observed.

shining-flower

Shining Flower

Authored by Tsuyoshi Kuroda of Maze Inc.

Filled with beautiful graphics and animations, "Shining Flower" describes the journey of a wanderer and a search for fulfillment. Part meditation, part fantasy, "Shining Flower" is an intriguing story of the wanderer's quest for enlightenment within a mysterious world.

shyboy

Shy Boy

Authored by Thom Swiss

"Shy Boy" is, like all of my born-digital work, a collaboration between myself and artists working in design, animation, and sound. For what it's worth, the boy in this piece is a version of my own son when he was in late elementary school. Like many new media poems, this one is an experiment in both how to read and how to listen. Its pacing and animated erasures are meditative and intended to be so quiet as to be nearly "unde...

at-home

Sky and Wires: At Home and Homeless

Authored by Blake Carrington

Sky and Wires: At Home and Homeless is a response to a contemporary life of engaging with places not as a space to be, but as a space to chart a trajectory through.

slipping

slippingglimpse

Authored by Stephanie Strickland,Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo

slippingglimpse is a 10-part interactive regenerative Flash poem combining text with videos of ocean patterns seen along the Atlantic coast (chreods).

socrates

Socrates in the Labyrinth

Authored by David Kolb

Socrates in the Labyrinth is a wide-ranging exploration of the relationships between hypertext, thought, and argument. Does hypertext present alternatives to the logical structures of if-then, claim and support?

softies

Softies

Authored by Jhave

SOFTIES are wrinkled squirming typographic poems created by David Jhave Johnston (glia.ca) under production in 2009. SOFTIES are possible thanks to the prototype Mr Softie software (http://www.mrsoftie.net/ ).

something-happened

Something That Happened Only Once

Authored by Roderick Coover

Something That Happened Only Once is panoramic work recorded in Coyocan Plaza, Mexico City. The work blends the actions of actors and non-actors in the natural setting on a busy Saturday afternoon.

sonic-phonic

Sonic Phonic

Authored by Mel Woods

audio-pieces

Sound Poetry Today

Authored by Philadelpho Minezes

soundings

Soundings1: Music From Visualsoundings 2002-2003

Authored by Various Artists

speed-series

Speed Series #2

Authored by Carolyn Kane

What lies in between cognition and sensation? Often conflicting forces that produce tension. On this edge between safety and danger there is an oscillation wrought with anxiety and ecstasy. This piece explores this threshold.

start-end

Start at the End

Authored by Philipp Hofmann

"Start at the End" is an HTML-based hypertext fiction that contains text-plateaus, images, and music. These three modes of signification work together to evoke three virtual spaces: mental, public, and private.

storyland

Storyland

Authored by Nanette Wylde

"Storyland v2" is a randomly created narrative which plays with social stereotypes and elements of popular culture. Each paragraph is constructed from a pool of possibilites, allowing each reader a unique story.

tell-me-what

Tell Me What To Do

Authored by David Kasdorf

mobydick

Text and Grid: Moby Dick

Authored by A. Bill Miller

12-labors

The 12 Labors of the Internet User

Authored by Serge Bouchardon

atlantic-fly

The Atlantic FlyWay

Authored by Christopher Cassidy

Atlantic Flyways is a continuation of the Augury videos that I began while in graduate school...this series of videos traces the great Atlantic Flyway, the seasonal migration route that attracts both millions of birds and thousands of birders.

barrier-frames

The Barrier Frames

Authored by Jim Rosenberg

This work comprises 9 very densely layered "nested simultaneities." It is an almost pure spatial hypertext. The only structuring is clusters inside clusters nested several layers deep.

breathing-wall

The Breathing Wall

Authored by Kate Pullinger,Stefan Schemat,babel

"The Breathing Wall" is told using text, image and sound. The story is told in parts, alternating between day-dreams (which reside in Flash movies) and night-dreams. The night-dreams reside within the Hyper Trance Fiction Matrix, an experimental software that allows the story to respond to the listener's rate of breathing.

the-cape

The Cape

Authored by J.R. Carpenter

THE CAPE was written, designed, built and copyright by me, J. R. Carpenter, in 2005. Many DHTML and javascripts were injured during the making of this web site. I used HomeSite 4.0. Dreamweaver plotted the timelines. All other code credits remain intact inside the source code.

devil-rope

The Devil's Rope Journal

Authored by Randy Adams,Chris Joseph,Christine Wilks

This iteration of The Devil's Rope Journal was created by Randy Adams (aka runran, Can), Chris Joseph (aka babel, Can/UK) and Christine Wilks (aka crissxross, UK). It began as a series of imaginary DVD covers presented as digital images in R3//1X//0RX tongue-in-cheek commentaries on new media in general.

dickens-web

The Dickens Web

Authored by George P. Landow

An open, richly interlinked web of Dickens' world, The Dickens Web is designed to be extensible and adaptable. The Dickens Web is the landmark of the great experiment in hypertextual teaching and research begun by Landow and others in the Intermedia project at Brown.

ebb-flow

The Ebb and Flow of the Tide

Authored by Peter Nepstad

You are dead. For your horrible unspeakable crime, burial is denied you. There will be no heaven or hell for you. As long as you are unburied, your soul cannot escape your body and you must endure the days and years to come, able to perceive but unable to act.

ecollection1

The Electronic Literature Collection (Vol. 1)

Authored by Various Artists

The Electronic Literature Collection is a periodical publication of current and older electronic literature in a form suitable for individual, public library, and classroom use.

ecollection2

The Electronic Literature Collection (Vol. 2)

Authored by Various Artists

The Electronic Literature Collection is a periodical publication of current and older electronic literature in a form suitable for individual, public library, and classroom use...volume 2 is available on a USB flash drive, both in a cases appropriate for library processing, marking, and distribution.

essence-both

The essence of both

Authored by Kevin McLellan

good-captain

The Good Captain

Authored by Jay Bushman

The Good Captain is an adaptation of Herman Melville's novella "Benito Cereno." Melville's original story relies upon the main character's first-person perceptions of the events that unfold in front of him. This reliance on P.O.V. is why I chose to distribute the story using the web service Twitter.

help-file

The Help File

Authored by Nick Montfort

hothouse

The HotHouse Project

Authored by David Stout,Cory Metcalf,Luke DuBois

Selected video of the generative art installation.

icebound

The Ice-Bound Compendium

Authored by Aaron Reed,Jacob Garbe

When Tethys House set out to resurrect our century's most beloved writer as a simulacrum, something went wrong. We don't know what. They tried to hide it. But strange transmissions leaked out anyway, morphing illegally through analog and digital forms: uploaded to pirate servers, broadcast in binary on UHF frequencies, printed in bulk and left on street corners. Now for the first time all the verified Ice-Bound transmissions a...

in-memoriam

The In Memoriam Web

Authored by George P. Landow,Jon Lanestedt

Like many great works of literature, Alfred Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam is densely allusive and referential, a sort of hypertext in the making; but since In Memoriam was composed in discrete parts meant to be read reflectively and in juxtaposition, this work lends itself particularly well to hypertextual treatment.

isthmus

The Isthmus of Kansas

Authored by Christopher Cassidy

In this short video, original footage taken from locations high above the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines is combined in one nearly symmetrical image.

jungfrau

The Jungfrau Tapes

Authored by Dene Grigar

I interviewed Diana Slattery, the author of "The Glide Project" and "The Maze Game," during April 2003 in Switzerland...Readers will come to realize, as I have, that Slattery possesses a fascinating and highly innovative mind and that her work is a reflection of that.

caterina

The Many Voices of Saint Caterina of Pedemonte

Authored by Silvia Rigon,Alison Walker

Saint Caterina of Pedemonte is meant as an experiment in digital narrative published on a CD-ROM. This project aspires to illustrate the many voices, which shape our perceptions of past events and people.

audio-pieces

The MINDful Play Environment (MPE)

Authored by Dene Grigar

MPE creates a virtual reality experience where three players collaborate to produce a multimedia art installation-comprised of light, music, spoken word, video, and animation-on the fly in real-time, with the help of motion tracking and webcam technologies.

pcouple

The Perfect Couple

Authored by Clark Humphrey

"They were as devoted as Romeo and Juliet, Bogart and Bacall, Lennon and Ono. They expected the world to envy them. When it didn't, they became simply more convinced that theirs was a love the world could not understand. Were they visionaries, or just crazy? Decide for yourself, based on what you read, in what order." -Eastgate Site

perseus

The Perseus Project 1.0

Authored by Gregory Crane et al.

The Perseus Project is an evolving digital library of resources for the study of the humanities. Collaborators initially formed the project to construct a large, heterogeneous collection of materials, textual and visual, on the Archaic and Classical Greek world.

audio-pieces

The Story of Emily and the Time Machine

Authored by Arthur Newkirk

unknown

The Unknown: An Anthology

Authored by William Gillespie,Frank Marquardt,Scott Rettberg,Dirk Stratton

The Unknown is a collaborative hypertext novel written during the turn of the millennium and principally concerning a book tour that takes on the excesses of a rock tour. Notorious for breaking the "comedy barrier" in electronic literature, The Unknown replaces the pretentious modernism and self-conciousness of previous hypertext works with a pretentious postmodernism and self-absorption that is more satirical in nature. It is...

wave

The Wave

Authored by Heather Raikes

"The Wave" is an electronic text derived from a series of media performances. The work explores and articulates a collection of meditations on myth, metaphor, and embodiment.

way-north

The Way North

Authored by Joel Weishaus

During the last Ice Age, Homo sapiens were tested as to whether they could survive extreme climatic conditions. Not only did our ancestors survive, they generated an art that has never been surpassed on the scale of its multimedia daring.

wedding-gunter

The Wedding Celebration of Gunter and Gwen

Authored by Judy Malloy

Exploring connections between surveillance and interference in the lives of artists, "The Wedding Celebration of Gunter and Gwen" is a hyperlibretto where the experience of a wedding celebration is created with words, graphic icons, and glockenspiel intermezzi.

audio-pieces

Things of Day & Dream

Authored by Dene Grigar

"Things of Day and Dream" is a short poem about the liminal space between waking and dreaming. Divided into 13 phrases, the work is laid out into two main parts of the performance space.

thosetrojangirls-dg

Those Trojan Girls

Authored by Mark Bernstein

"Hill Academy occupies an ancient and well-tended campus not far from Troy. Hill has educated the children of the provincial elite since its foundation back in the colonial days. Graduates of Hill have included prime ministers, leaders of industry, scientists and scholars and churchmen, and plenty of their wives as well." -from website

audio-pieces

Three Little Loops

Authored by Brian Evans

three-works

Three Works

Authored by Richard O'Sullivan

In my videos, I seek to create moments of perceptual disruption, through which the audience may become conscious of the cultural and technological mediation of their vision. This disruption is focused on the moment of the cut, as the edit point can push the viewer between different viewing states.

toc

TOC

Authored by Steve Tomasula,Stephen Farrell,Christian Jara

TOC is a multimedia epic about time: the invention of the second, the beating of a heart, the story of humans connecting through time to each other and to the world.

together

Together

Authored by Robb Fladry

Times two. {press release hostages}

transfixion

Transfixion

Authored by Michael Hoffman

true-north

True North

Authored by Stephanie Strickland

Transmuting worlds, lives, and idioms into a powerful whole, Strickland brings together Bell's Theorem, quaternions, Noah Webster, Mother Goose, laser gyroscopes, the lives of Emily Dickinson and Josiah Willard Gibbs, the Amistad mutiny, and the MX missile, to tap a human voice deep within universal abstraction.

turnin

Turning In

Authored by Wes Chapman

"In this hypertextual coming-of-age novel, Adri Sumner's wish to forget his troubled childhood paradoxically launches him on a journey of self-discovery. His quest takes him through suburban pizza parlors, Ivy League parties, a brush with the penal system, and an adventure in courtroom deconstruction." -Eastgate Site

twelveblue

Twelve Blue

Authored by Michael Joyce

twilight-symphony

Twilight, A Symphony

Authored by Michael Joyce

Twilight, A Symphony is an innovative exploration of home, family, and the nostalgia that can't ever quite replace them. At the heart of Twilight is erstwhile reporter Hugh Colin Enright. Estranged from his wife, on the run, and sequestered with his infant son on the shores of Pleasant Lake, Hugh is befriended by an eccentric Polish politcal refugee and his wife, Magda.

audio-pieces

uConnect Installation

Authored by M. Cooley

una-selva

Una Selva Oscura

Authored by Victoria Welby

uncle-buddy

Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse

Authored by John McDaid

Art "Buddy" Newkirk has disappeared and left you his literary estate. By the looks of it, he and his friends were a very odd bunch. You might have enjoyed knowing them. But you don't - why does "Uncle" Buddy think you do? Where is he, anyway? And what does this have to do with Meister Eckhart and the New York City subway?

uncle-roger

Uncle Roger

Authored by Judy Malloy

Uncle Roger is a work of comedic narrative poetry. In the years that this story was created, the writer - who had also lived in the locale of the Silicon Valley semiconductor industry -- was immersed in an early online environment which included many people from Silicon Valley and the computer culture.

underbelly

Underbelly

Authored by Christine Wilks

"Underbelly" is a playable media fiction about a woman sculptor, carving on the site of a former colliery in the north of England, now landscaped into a country park. As she carves, she is disturbed by a medley of voices and the player/reader is plunged into an underworld of repressed fears...

unheimlich

Unheimlich

Authored by Sarah Atkinson

unnatural

Unnatural Habitats

Authored by Kathy Mac

Unnatural Habitats sings the poetry of primitive submarines, crippled spaceships, and basement apartments. Canadian poet Kathy Mac explores the consequences of American idealism, from the Apollo 13 tragedy to the U.S. invasion of Kuwait.

velvet

Velvet

Authored by Alexander Mouton

Velvet explores states of mind, dreams and memory which are both whimsical and disturbing. The project has four sections that transition one into another. Interactivity plays a significant role, not only for navigation, but also for the generation of meaning.

victory-garden

Victory Garden

Authored by Stuart Moulthrop

The Gulf War and its media frenzy serves as the backdrop for this Dickensian tale of campus politics, seduction, burglary, dissent, unsafe driving, and war.

kelly-raine

Video/Animation Collection

Authored by Kelly Raine

A collection of works by Kelly Raine. Demo reels.

virtualdj

Virtual DJ

Authored by Steve Gibson

"Virtual DJ" uses the tracking capabilities of the Gesture and Media System, invented by APR Inc., to enable one or more participants to use space as a performance tool.

visual-music

Visual Music

Authored by Brian Evans

On Meleá/Calidri: All is number in the computer. I take numeric models and see what songs and pictures they will make. How can I map numbers to the senses--turn numbers into a tangible experience? Then I wonder how the senses map to each other. I map the maps.

water

Water

Authored by Belinda Haikes

descend

We Descend

Authored by Bill Bly

We Descend is an artifactual hypertext, which takes the form of an archive of writings by different authors over a vast span of time. It contains the writings of a Scholar who discovers documents he believes to have been written or collected by one Egderus, who lived many generations before...

when

when

Authored by Ottar Ormstad

In the film "when" Ottar Ormstad is transferring his practice as concrete poet to the realm of a programmable networked space, blending his poetry with specially composed modern music with electronic elements.

ghostsdie

When Ghosts Will Die DVD

Authored by Steve Gibson,Dene Grigar

"When Ghosts Will Die" is a performance-installation utilizing multi-sensory elements such as sound, video, light, and images controlled by motion-tracking technology that tells the story about the dangers of nuclear proliferation.

wheniwaspres

When I Was President

Authored by Alan Bigelow

cut-present

When you cut into the present, the future leaks out

Authored by Lana Z. Caplan

"When you cut into the present, the future leaks out" includes short video and audio clips played randomly by a computer, creating a "cut-up" video collage.

winterscape

Winterscape

Authored by Jim Bizzocchi

Winterscape explores the relationship between form, content and visual flow in the context of the landscape of the Canadian Rockies.

workbook

work.book.05

Authored by Talan Memmott

at-the-edge

Writing at the Edge

Authored by various authors

Hypertext theorist George P. Landow opens his fiction workshop to bring you the excitement of reading and writing hypertext with 16 talented young artists. The core of this work is based on Landow's memorable keynote speech to The Hypertext Conference, in which he demonstrated the interconnection between avante-garde writing and the world of technical discourse.

xenolinguistics

Xenolinguistics

Authored by Diana Slattery

Xenolinguistics, defined in science fiction as the study of alien languages, is re-defined in the context of psychedelics and communication with the Other. Psychedelics can enable a broad and paradoxical spectrum of linguistic phenomena from the unspeakability of mystical experience to the eloquence of the songs of the shaman or curandera.

ELO Archives

ELO

6:41

Authored by Charles Bennett

88-constellations

88 Constellations for Wittgenstein

Authored by David Clark

88 Constellations for Wittgenstein (to be played with the Left Hand) is an interactive, non-linear net.art piece that explores the life and philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein through a series of animated vignettes created in Flash.

adyingplace

A Dying Place

Authored by Morris L. Striplin

littleexperiment

A Little Experiment on Hypertext

Authored by Carlos Henrique Falci

abecedarian

Abecedarian

Authored by David Penberg

manythings

About So Many Things

Authored by Nanette Wylde

agrippa

Agrippa

Authored by

bleeding

Bleeding Through: Layers of Lost Angeles 1920-1986

Authored by Norman M. Klein

audio-pieces

Blues of a Mumbling Train

Authored by Charles Fort

chaosity

CHAOSity

Authored by Niki Nolin,Karen Osborne,Wade Roberts

CHAOSity questions the "linear, rigidly logical development of plot" and the "facile interpretation of life's complexities" that strict adherence to lenearity can imply. CHAOSity begame with analysis of existing works and theory, and ended with the creation of a collabroative, orgininal cultural work that involves individual readers as co-creators. The resulting multi-threaded story, told in text, animation, images and sound, ...

chestersstories

Chester's Stories

Authored by Dickie Knicks,Betsy Read,Tamar Taylor

clues

Clues (A Work in Progress)

Authored by Robert Kendall

This edition was presented for "A Celebration of Multimedia" on April 4th, 2001.

coffee

Coffee

Authored by Greg Lindsay

commonground

Common Ground: One Night in a Three-Story House

Authored by Stephen Granade

ELO

County

Authored by Marcus Magallanes, M.D.

underground

Cyberpoetry Underground

Authored by Komninos Zervos

http://komninos.com.au/underground/entry.html

ELO

Dance Sisters

Authored by Alan Clay

developing

Developing: The Idea of Home

Authored by Nancy Buchanan

A poetic artwork exploring themes related to "home" but also expanding outward from the private into matters related to real estate and land development, economics and the politics of land use. Extensive bibliography included, as well as video and audio clips.

dinnerforone

Dinner for One

Authored by Cheryl E. Ball

ELO

Eating Asiago and Drinking Beer

Authored by Robert Lietz

figurski

Figurski at Findhorn on Acid

Authored by Richard Holeton

Frank "Many-Pens" Figurski, paroled after serving six years for killing Professor Quentin Kingsley, is on a mission. Having discovered what is apparently a seventeenth-century mechanical pig washed up on the beach at Findhorn Park, Frank embarks on a quest to determine the pig's authenticity.

fuegi

Fuegi Portrait

Authored by I.K.

harvest

Harvest in Burgundy: Documentary Photography and the Rhetorics o

Authored by Roderick Coover

heavenagain

Heaven Again

Authored by H.C. Turk

hindsight

Hindsight

Authored by Shelli Johnson

iamasinger

I Am A Singer

Authored by Megan Heyward

liquidation

Liquidation

Authored by Michael Lefebvre,Eva Quintas

maddysaid

Maddy Said: A Short Audio Hypertext

Authored by C.S. Larson

mysteries&desire

Mysteries and Desires: Searching the Worlds of John Rechy

Authored by Marsha Kinder,John Rechy,Nina Menkes,Pat O'Neill

nextcentury

Next Century

Authored by H.C. Turk

odysseusshe

Odysseus, She

Authored by Katherine Phelps

day-night

of day, of night (Earlier Version)

Authored by Megan Heyward

In Megan Heyward's new media narrative, of day, of night, a woman has lost the ability to dream. Setting herself a series of creative tasks, she attempts to spark her unconscious into dreaming again.

ELO

Opuscula

Authored by Elin Sjursen

ELO

Passion's Vision

Authored by Mary Adair

poemsthatgo

Poems That Go - Spring 2002, Number 9

Authored by Megan Sapnar,Ingrid Ankerson, Eds.

ELO

Prayers for the Temple Within

Authored by Louise Hart

randomhaiku

Random Haiku for the Millennial Shift

Authored by Nanette Wylde

Random Haiku for the Millennial Shift employs randomized text to create haiku that echo these times. A new poem is created every 20 seconds out of 3.5 million possible haiku. This work is a homage to early net artists.

savagewhispers

Savage Whispers

Authored by Ruth Hudson Savage

ELO

Semiotic Poetry

Authored by Alexander Gherban

shadowdance

Shadow Dance

Authored by H.C. Turk

talky

Talky=Talky=2005

Authored by Jason Nelson

ELO

Tank20

Authored by Rob Wittig

egypt

The Book of Going Forth by Day -- Shockwave Demo

Authored by M.D. Coverley

crazybloodyfemale

The Crazy Bloody Female Center

Authored by Nina Menkes

ELO

The Gallery

Authored by David P Reiter

thehollow

The Hollow

Authored by Cathy McCarthy

ELO

The Lives of Ghosts and Other Shades of Memory

Authored by Loren W Cooper

unknownhyper

The Unknown: A Hypertext Novel

Authored by William Gillespie,Frank Marquardt,Scott Rettberg,Dirk Stratton

he Unknown is a collaborative hypertext novel written during the turn of the millennium and principally concerning a book tour that takes on the excesses of a rock tour. Notorious for breaking the "comedy barrier" in electronic literature, The Unknown replaces the pretentious modernism and self-conciousness of previous hypertext works with a pretentious postmodernism and self-absorption that is more satirical in nature. It is ...

sondhiem

Various Materials for ELO

Authored by Alan Sondheim

ELO

Voices in the Abyss

Authored by Mark Carlson

waiting

Waiting,

Authored by Andy Young

windsound

Windsound

Authored by John Cayley

The Margie Luesebrink Collection

extrainnings

AFKA Left Field: Extra Innings (Authorized Bootleg 12.98)

Authored by Bill Neely, Elizabeth Emmert, Deborah Griffin Bly, Bill Bly, & Mark

A studio recording of Left Field's original music.

afternoon-story

afternoon, a story

Authored by Michael Joyce

A classic of electronic fiction, afternoon is required reading. Complex and richly imagined, this is the story of Peter, a technical writer who (in one reading) begins his afternoon with a terrible suspicion that the wrecked car he saw hours earlier might have belonged to his former wife.

jasonnelson

Another Emotion

Authored by Jason Nelson

Jason Nelson's "Another Emotion" is a digital poem about the word "pattern." Nelson uses seven different colors to distinguish the seven parts of the poem. Each section is accompanied by a distinct piano soundtrack as well as an image that can be revealed by rolling over a highlighted word in the text. If any number of special words is clicked, the viewing will be randomly placed, and pictures will show on the back. Nels...

sondheimarchive1

Archive 2.4 2000/1

Authored by Alan Sondheim

sondheimarchive2

Archive 3.7.1 Work 1994-2002

Authored by Alan Sondheim

asteroids

Asteroids: Work 1994-2002

Authored by Alan Sondheim

balladsandsoot

Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot

Authored by Stephanie Strickland

The "Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot" is a poem written by Stephanie Strickland as a score for a hypertext implementation, coded by Janet Holmes. Its images are suggestive of digital or mathematical culture, including Webcam photos, a core dump, an animated fractal, and algorithmic patterns inscribed in sand by a computer-driven steel ball.

bloodychamber

Bloody Chamber

Authored by Donna Leishman

"A kinetic and interactive piece of fiction based on the historical French folk tale Bluebeard. The piece depicts a sinister love story but unlike most literature, the work uses flash. This distinct creation gives Leishman's unique portrayal of the historical events regarding a diabolical husband who gives his latest wife a key to his bloody chamber. He stresses that she must not enter the room however, out of curiosity she g...

califia

Califia

Authored by M.D. Coverley

Spanning five generations of swashbuckling Californians, Califia is the story of Augusta Summerland's epic search for a lost cache of gold.

califiabeta

Califia (Author's Beta)

Authored by M.D. Coverley

Spanning five generations of swashbuckling Californians, Califia is the story of Augusta Summerland's epic search for a lost cache of gold.

codepoetry

Code Poetry

Authored by Ted Warnell

concatenation

Concatenation

Authored by Geniwate

"In Concatenation, the machine of the text assembles poems that deal with the ability of language to enact violence."

deviant

Deviant: The Possession of Christian Shaw

Authored by Donna Leishman

"In "Deviant: The Possession of Christian Shaw," Donna Leishman uses a series of animated images to tell the story of Christian Shaw, an almost eleven year old girl who lives in Balgarran. This is an exploratory piece that allows the user to experience Christian's world."

downtime

Down Time

Authored by Rob Swigart

"Down Time consists of twenty-one stories of the computer age, connected by shared characters, events and objects. A police officer, a terminal patient, a computer technician, and a high-school guidance counselor are just a few of the characters we follow as they try (and fail) to understand themselves, their lovers, and the strangers they meet." -Eastgate Site

eastgate

Eastgate Flash Workshop

Authored by Various Artists

egypt

Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day (2003)

Authored by M.D. Coverley

Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day - is a CD-ROM - based, extended narrative in hypermedia. Because of the complexity, it was conceived and written, from the beginning, with a variety of software programs.

egypt

Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day (2008)

Authored by M.D. Coverley

Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day - is a CD-ROM - based, extended narrative in hypermedia. Because of the complexity, it was conceived and written, from the beginning, with a variety of software programs.

egypt

Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day (Back up)

Authored by M.D. Coverley

Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day - is a CD-ROM - based, extended narrative in hypermedia. Because of the complexity, it was conceived and written, from the beginning, with a variety of software programs.

errand

Errand Upon Which We Came

Authored by M.D. Coverley,Stephanie Strickland

The poem overtly instructs readers to explore the piece in different ways and offers us three navigational tools: a scheduled linear reading in which the poem unfolds before us like a film, a series of linked o's beneath the Flash canvas, and linked words in each node that form different loops of their own. Each node delicately layers sounds of nature, garden images, animations of frogs and butterflies, quotes, and scheduled p...

forward-anywhere

Forward Anywhere

Authored by Judy Malloy,Cathy Marshall

"Forward Anywhere" explores the outrageous and mundane realities that reach across two lives to make these narrators who they are. This funny, touching work is the first published collaboration by these major figures in hypertext writing and research.

jasonnelson

Frostbite

Authored by Jason Nelson

jasonnelson

In an Unrelated Sequence Comes

Authored by Jason Nelson

capital

Karl Marx's Capital, Volume 1: Multimedia Edition

Authored by Karl Marx

Hypertext version of volume one of Marx's Capital with multimedia elements. Includes the complete text of the translation by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling with a preface by Bret Schultz. Multimedia elements include both graphics and music.

krikri

krikri2003

Authored by Various Artists

A compilation from the sound poetry festival Krikri in Gent 2003. Tracks by Paul De Vree, Moniek Darge & Karin De Fleyt, Michael Lentz, Eduard Escoffet, Tholomé & Dicenaire, Maja Ratkje, Jan van der Hoeven, Henbing Li, Godfried-Willem Raes, Jean-Pierre Bobillot, Serge van Duijnhoven, Maja Jantar and Jelle Meander. Includes "Joy" from the album Voice by Maja Ratkje.

captaincaptain

My Name is Captain, Captain.

Authored by Judd Morrissey,Lori Talley

My Name Is Captain, Captain. (2002) is a collaborative poem written in a language of word and image. The central navigational metaphor is dead reckoning, or, flying blind, and the work as a whole has a peculiar relationship to the golden age of flight.

jasonnelson

Nine Attempts to Clone a Poem

Authored by Jason Nelson

jasonnelson

Panhandle

Authored by Jason Nelson

patchwork

Patchwork Girl

Authored by Shelly Jackson

What if Mary Shelley's Frankenstein were true? What if Mary Shelley herself made the monster -- not the fictional Dr. Frankenstein? And what if the monster was a woman, and fell in love with Mary Shelley, and travelled to America? This is their story.

phoneme

Phon:e:Me

Authored by Mark Amerika

playgrownd

PlayGROWnd: A Learning Environment

Authored by Hale Chatfield

pyxis

Pyxis Byzantium (Backup June 02)

Authored by M.D. Coverly

researations

re-sea-rations

Authored by Reiner Strasser

This is a collection of the artists works, including: la cipolla; breathe; desire; e[y]gg[e]; the shrine; & vib~ratio~n

redridinghood

RedRidingHood

Authored by Donna Leishman

Leishman's playful retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale makes use of comic book vernacular, limited forms of explorative interaction, optional narrative paths, and a jazzy soundtrack. RedRidinghood is the type of Flash piece that suggests the potential for complex forms of interactive storytelling without typographic text.

samplers

Samplers: Nine Vicious Little Hypertexts

Authored by Deena Larsen

Nine richly imagined works make up this sampler quilt of hypertext. Stories of spirits returned to haunt the living, of memories that stubbornly refuse to fade, and of children far wiser than their parents.

stonemoons

Stone Moons

Authored by Deena Larsen

jasonnelson

Superstitious Appaliances

Authored by Jason Nelson

symbolrock

Symbol Rock

Authored by Marie-Laure Ryan,Jon Thiem

""Symbol Rock" is a hybrid text, inspired by hypertext, computer games, multi-media databases, activity books, "coffee table" books and children's pop-up books. It is above all a documentary text, based on extensive research, and capturing the voices of dozens of informants" -- Marie-Laure Ryan

talky

Talky=Talky=2005

Authored by Jason Nelson

ecollection1

The Electronic Literature Collection (Vol. 1)

Authored by Various Artists

The Electronic Literature Collection is a periodical publication of current and older electronic literature in a form suitable for individual, public library, and classroom use.

princessmurderer

The Princess Murderer

Authored by Geniwate,Deena Larsen

"This work is in a game framework that explores the reader's interaction with the text. As the reader reads more nodes, more of the "princesses" are born or die. It evokes the Stanley Milgram shock experiments on a lighter note -- will you continue reading if your characters are dying?" - Wikipedia

thereal

The Réal, Las Vegas, Nevada

Authored by Mark C. Taylor,José Márquez,Ralph Kelliher

The Réal, Las Vegas, Nevada is an electronic artist's book featuring the writing of Mark C. Taylor and José Márquez, illustrated by Ralph Kelliher and José Márquez, and programmed by Noah Peeters. A multimedia CD-ROM, The Réal runs on both Windows 95 and Macintosh OS platforms. It is published jointly by Williams College Museum of Art and Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and distributed by the U...

unknownhyper

The Unknown: A Hypertext Novel

Authored by William Gillespie,Frank Marquardt,Scott Rettberg,Dirk Stratton

he Unknown is a collaborative hypertext novel written during the turn of the millennium and principally concerning a book tour that takes on the excesses of a rock tour. Notorious for breaking the "comedy barrier" in electronic literature, The Unknown replaces the pretentious modernism and self-conciousness of previous hypertext works with a pretentious postmodernism and self-absorption that is more satirical in nature. It is ...

unknown

The Unknown: An Anthology

Authored by William Gillespie,Frank Marquardt,Scott Rettberg,Dirk Stratton

The Unknown is a collaborative hypertext novel written during the turn of the millennium and principally concerning a book tour that takes on the excesses of a rock tour. Notorious for breaking the "comedy barrier" in electronic literature, The Unknown replaces the pretentious modernism and self-conciousness of previous hypertext works with a pretentious postmodernism and self-absorption that is more satirical in nature. It is...

hereasstone

To Be Here As Stone Is

Authored by M.D. Coverly,Stephanie Strickland

To Be Here as Stone Is is a print poem in True North and a heavily linked node in True North Hypertext. It is also a hypermedia poem made with M.D. Coverley.

descend

We Descend

Authored by Bill Bly

We Descend is an artifactual hypertext, which takes the form of an archive of writings by different authors over a vast span of time. It contains the writings of a Scholar who discovers documents he believes to have been written or collected by one Egderus, who lived many generations before...

audio-pieces

Works 2002-2003

Authored by Jelle Meander,Maja Janter

Audio CD